New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers speak to a resident of an encampment of homeless people in his tent on East 9th Street in Manhattan, New York City, US [Andrew Kelly/Reuters] ...

Social services agencies across the state now place nearly half of all individuals and families seeking shelter in hotels, ...

Nov 29 (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams rolled out a plan on Tuesday to allow more mentally ill homeless people to be hospitalized against their will in order to tackle "a crisis we see ...

In recent years, homelessness in New York City has reached the highest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In January 2025, 120,513 people slept each night in NYC shelters.

New York City hopes an app can help it reduce homelessness. Around 62,000 homeless people live in New York City, and the city's "demand for shelter" has shot up 79 percent in the last 10 years .

Homeless People Sue New York City for Throwing Away Their Property The lawsuit, which could become a class action, argues that the city’s cleanups, or “sweeps,” violate constitutional ...

As per the New York Post, among the 2,308 homeless people present during the NYC sweep between March 21, 2022, and November 30, 2022, only three people landed in permanent housing. Nearly 95 per ...

New York City shelters are overburdened as the number of homeless people in the city crossed 1,00,000, a report by New York Times said. This is the first time in history that the number of people ...

Police in New York have arrested 10 people in connection with the death of a man who was first reported missing from a homeless encampment in late May and discovered dead earlier this month.

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The homeless population in New York City, the most populous city in the United States, has surged in recent years to 80,000 people, according to The Bowery Mission ...

NEW YORK, United States – A former New York City Department of Homeless Services fraud investigator was sentenced to 27 months in prison Tuesday after admitting to stealing homeless people’s ...

People sleep on cots inside the RISE Housing and Support Services homeless shelter on Adelphia Street in Saratoga Springs in June 2023. Student homelessness and poverty remain pervasive in New York.